Support for store-service ways



(No Model.)

H. THOMAS.

SUPPORT PoR "STORE SERVICE WAYS.

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l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORATIO THOMAS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE BOSTEDO CASH AND PACKAGE CARRIER COMPANY, OF ATLANTIC, IOWA.

SUPPORT FOR STORE-SERVICE WAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,028, dated Aug-ust 9, 1887.

Application filed August 14, 1886. Serial No. 210.910. (No model.)

Improvements in Hangers or Supports for Cash and Package Carrier Systems; and I do n hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in hangers or supports for cash and rier systems.

The object is to provide a light, strong, and durable track-support, which shall present a neat appearance, and which can be supplied at a moderate cost.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts,as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View of the support, supposed to stand iirmly on the oor and to be secured at its lower end; and Fig. 2 represents the support attached firmly to the ceiling or to a beam overhead and used as a hanger.

Although the support is designed for use in connection with the cash and package carrier system for which application for Letters Patent have been iiled by L. G. Bostedo, August 2, 1886, Serial No. 209,781, where a forwarding and a return track are located in the same or nearly the same vertical plane, its advantages are not necessarily conned to such a construction, but it may be successfully employed with systems of various types.

A A represent two parallel posts set in a plane at right angles to the line of the track. They may consist of ordinary gas pipe or other tubing, or they might lbe formed solid and be made either of wood or metal.

Tracksupporting brackets B arel each provided with four sockets arranged in vertical pairs,b b and b b', theaxes of each pair being in the same straight line and the sockets being suficiently large to admit the posts A. The parts of the bracket in which the sockets are formed are connected by diagonal or curved braces b2, which prevent the spreading or collapsing of the socket portions, and

package carl when the posts A are slid therein,or when the brackets are slid on the posts, serve to lock the posts at a certain distance apart and effectually prevent them from tilting in the direction of their plane or in the direction in which the weight of the track and its load would tend to tilt them.

The arms b3 and b*,which lead from the upper andlower socket-heads on one of the posts outwardly, gradually converge and terminate in a solid end, b5, to which the track C is secured by a screw, c, or other approved means. The lower branch, bt, of the bracket may be horizontal and the upper branch eX- tend toward it in a straight or curved form, or the upper branch, b3, maybe horizontal and the lower branch extend toward it either in a straight or curved form; or the two branches may approach each other and meet between the planes ofthe bases. The brackets may be set at any desired height on the posts, and may be adjusted up or down at pleasure by means of set-screws D, which work in the walls of the sockets and impinge against the posts.

The skeleton form of bracket shown is the one preferred,on account of its lightness,neat ness, and economy of metal; but it might be made with a thin web connecting its border, or of a solid plate of metal of uniform thickness, if so desired, and the braces might be of other forms than those shown, and three or more uprights might be employed, and other slight changes might be resorted to in the form and arrangement of the several parts without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention; hence I do not wish to limit myseli` strictly to the construction herein set forth; but, y

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combinatiomwith a track andapair of uprights, the latter being located one behind tlie other in a plane at right angles to the track, of a track -supporting bracket adapted to engage each post at two points and lock the uprights in position, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a trackandapair of uprights, the latter being located one be- IOO hind the other und in :L plane at right angles to the track, of a skeleton bracket, substantially as described, adapted to embrace each of the nprights at two points, and devices for 5 looking the bracket to the nprights in differ- Vitnesses: ent vertical adjustments, substantially as set L. G. BOSTEDO, forth.

BENJAMIN F. STRAUS.

In testimony whereof have signed this specicfttion inthe presence of two subscribing Witmesses.

HoRATIo THOMAS. 

